ISBW #145 – Agents, Blake Charlton, Good Cop/Bad Cop

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• 00:00:06 ISBW #145
• 00:00:43 State of the Mur: driving to RavenCon! Travel, getting hacked (again), fresh reinstall and re-uploading of podcasts – please go to The Murverse for all your ISBW podcast archive needs – working on novella, trying to get schedule back under control.
• 00:05:28 GoTo Meeting Message
• 00:06:07 Back to Basics: people deserve to get paid for their work.  Agents: do your homework. Resources: Writer’s Digest, Media Bistro, Agent Query
• 00:13:48 Promo: Merciless Storytellers: Performance Without Pity (podcasting competition)
• 00:19:00 Interview: Blake Charlton, med student and author of Spellwright
• 00:36:24 Promo: Scott Sigler’s The Starter. (Get a discount with the promo code “MUR”)
• 00:37:22 Feedback: Media Bistro’s AvantGuild as a recommended resource for nonfiction freelancers; the Zoom H2 and other voice recorder options, Holly Lisle as a recommended resource for revising one’s manuscript (http://howtoreviseyournovel.com/); do people change when they start to write?; comparing gaining experience in writing to gaining experience in The Sims; Discount! Use promo code MUR to save on Scott Sigler’s The Starter.
• 00:41:41 Good Cop/Bad Cop with Matt Wallace*: how to avoid the paralysis of fearing you’re going to “waste” a great idea when you’re not yet a good enough author to write it; setting boundaries with clingy writers
  * He said he didn’t want you to be able to contact him directly, but I say PHOOEY! You like the bad cop? Click away.  Hunt him down on his own turf. Thus sayeth the show notes writer. –Carrie.

(Note, ISBW does  not advocate the harming of anyone. That’s all Matt.)